HAVING ATTENDED the Health Policy Commission’s annual cost trend hearings earlier this month, I came away thinking about five interesting moments, which I present in the chronological order in which […]
Paul Hattis
Posted inHealth Care, Opinion
Beth Israel-Lahey merger causing some jitters
USUALLY SUMMERTIME is not chock full of key health care developments and related news stories. Yes, there is always the strategic late August regulatory filings from our hospitals, where annual […]
Posted inHealth Care, Opinion
Moving beyond health cost targets
IN LATE MARCH, the board of the Health Policy Commission voted unanimously to leave the 2018 cost growth benchmark for total state health care expenditures at 3.1 percent. This target […]
Posted inHealth Care, Opinion
The Partners premium
IT IS INTERESTING TO WITNESS Partners HealthCare and its efforts to fend off any policy approaches that may attempt to rein-in the unwarranted high prices the company receives from commercial […]
Posted inHealth Care, Opinion, Politics
Could breakup of Partners be way to go?
WITH GOV. CHARLIE BAKER now having signed off on the legislative deal to avoid the SEIU ballot initiative which would have drastically taken commercial insurance monies away from Partners HealthCare, […]